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Nighthawks Close Out JRTC Rotation, Return to Indiana

Indiana National Guard By MSG Jeff Lowry,

Indiana National Guard Soldiers with the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, nicknamed the Nighthawk Brigade, closed out their nearly monthlong training at the Joint Readiness Training...

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Tennessee Soldier Excels in U.S. Army Intelligence

Tennessee National Guard By CPT Matthew Gilbert,

SSG Krystle Parks, an intelligence analyst with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 230th Sustainment Brigade based in Chattanooga, recently went to Romania in support of exercise...

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100 years of Rainbow Division Marked by Long Island Ceremony

New York National Guard By Eric Durr,

Veterans and current leaders of the 42nd Infantry Division and the New York Army National Guard marked the 100th anniversary of the Rainbow Division with a...

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Arizona Guard Civil Support Team Trains in Colorado

Arizona National Guard By SFC Robert Frees,

The Arizona National Guard’s 91st Civil Support Team (CST) practiced loading vehicles and equipment on aircraft at Goldwater Air National Guard Base to train with other...

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South Carolina Guard Chaplain Corps To Assist Soldiers and Families In Deployments

South Carolina National Guard By SGT Brad Mincey,

For more than 240 years, the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps has attended to the faith and spiritual needs of American Soldiers and their Families.

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Fort Indiantown Gap Hosts Inaugural Air Assault Course

Pennsylvania National Guard By SGT Zane Craig,

This past summer, more than 200 National Guard Soldiers participated in the first Air Assault course offered at Fort Indiantown Gap and facilitated by members of...

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Alaska Guard Soldiers Train In Urban Warfare

Alaska National Guard By SGT David Bedard,

For Alaska Army National Guard SGT Christopher Radach, close-quarters combat in an urban environment is a deadly serious business.

The veteran of six combat...

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Western NY Guard Soldiers Use Backyard Dry Firing, Private Ranges to Prep For National Guard Shooting Match

New York National Guard By Eric Durr,

As he gets ready for the National Guard’s annual rifle and pistol competition, New York Army National Guard SSG Michael Kapela is spending a lot of...

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Son of Fallen Virginia National Guard Officer Enlists on Parents’ 20th Anniversary

Virginia National Guard By SFC Terra C. Gatti,

Twenty years after his parents got married and 10 years after losing his father in an Iraq helicopter shoot-down, PVT Paul David Kelly, 19, raised...

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Down the pike

In the next issue:

Citizen-Soldier will feature the Nevada National Guard’s historic response to record-breaking flooding in northern Nevada. The state experienced rainfall totals that broke records going back over a century and...

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